THE MORNING RANT – Buck Shots [01/30/2023]

The “Throckmorton Carbon Offset Company” Is Accepting Payments

Carbon offsets are a scam. The people pushing carbon offsets know they’re a scam. We normal people know they’re a scam. And the people pushing the offsets know that we know they’re a scam. But the scam persists. Why? Because without carbon offsets, jet-setting elites and woke corporations couldn’t make the claim that they are green or “carbon neutral.”

The funny part of the scam is that the “offset” is payment for rain forest that isn’t cleared in a given year. So if I own 10,000 acres of rain forest and plan to clear 1,000 acres this year, I can sell a “carbon offset” for the 9,000 acres of land I wasn’t going to clear anyway. After I clear the 1,000 acres, the suckers who paid me get to claim that they somehow offset their own carbon production.

Some of the more principled leftists are getting tired of trying to play along with this farce.

Revealed: More Than 90% of Rainforest Carbon Offsets by Biggest Provider are Worthless, Analysis Shows (The Guardian – 01/18/2023]

The research into Verra, the world’s leading carbon standard for the rapidly growing $2bn voluntary offsets market, has found that, based on analysis of a significant percentage of the projects, more than 90% of their rainforest offset credits – among the most commonly used by companies – are likely to be “phantom credits” and do not represent genuine carbon reductions.

The analysis raises questions over the credits bought by a number of internationally renowned companies – some of them have labelled their products “carbon neutral”, or have told their consumers they can fly, buy new clothes or eat certain foods without making the climate crisis worse.

Who are the companies paying for these phony carbon offsets, and promoting themselves as carbon neutral?

Gucci, Salesforce, BHP, Shell, easyJet, Leon and the band Pearl Jam were among dozens of companies and organisations that have bought rainforest offsets approved by Verra for environmental claims.

My wife and I own several acres of wooded land that is not earning any income, so I want in on this action.

 It is with great pride and excitement that I am announcing the formation of the Throckmorton Carbon Offset Company, LLC.

For a fee commensurate with your ~~gullibility~~ commitment to carbon neutrality, I will deem you or your organization “carbon neutral” for all the trees I didn’t cut down in a given year. Even if/when my wife and I develop the land, most of it will not be “deforested” so I should be able to keep this ~~swindle~~ green initiative going for many years.

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Woke Starbucks is Responsible For Climate Change…and I Can Help

People Should Drink Less Coffee to Combat Climate Change, Study Says [NY Post – 01/18/2023]

Canadian researchers analyzed coffee’s “contribution to climate change” in a piece published in early January and suggested people moderate their consumption of the popular drink as a part of the solution.

“…moderate their consumption”??

Sorry, but no. If you’re a believer in the Sustainable Organic Church of the Carbon Apocalypse, moderation is not an option. You have one choice only - stop drinking coffee. If you continue with your Starbucks habit, you’re going to submerge the Maldives!

“Our analysis clearly showed that traditional filter coffee has the highest carbon footprint, mainly because a greater quantity of coffee powder is used to produce the amount of coffee. This process also consumes more electricity to heat the water and keep it warm,” the researchers wrote.

I honestly don’t know how Starbuck’s CEO Howard Schultz can live with himself, knowing that his product is melting the ice caps, exterminating polar bears, and causing extreme weather.

Oh wait just a second…I’ve got a different idea.

MR. SCHULTZ: If you are reading this, please contact me at the email address below and I’ll absolve you of your carbon sinning for a mere $1 million per year, with offsets from the Throckmorton Carbon Offset Company. I’ll even send you a picture of the trees that aren’t being deforested upon receipt of your carbon offset payment.

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Natural Gas is Green Energy

Expect more of this from politicians who start to realize that electricity blackouts will harm their careers much more than perfect fidelity to the “net zero” decarbonization agenda:

With stroke of his pen, Gov. Mike DeWine defines natural gas as green energy [Cleveland Plain Dealer – 01/06/2023]

Gov. Mike DeWine signed legislation that broadly expands the ability to drill for oil and gas in state parks and also legally redefines natural gas as a source of “green energy.”

If you consider the emission of carbon dioxide a sin, then natural gas is fantastically clean and green. The reason that CO2 emissions in the United States have been steadily declining over the past 20 years is because of the massive switch from coal to clean-burning natural gas as a fuel for electricity generation.

The eco-communists hate natural gas because it is a petroleum product, and because it is a cheap, reliable source of energy.

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Government Inflation Reports to Become Even More Dishonest

Your government’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (Labor Department) is frustrated with you, because you continue to complain about your empty wallets and soaring bills, rather than nodding in agreement at their dishonest inflation reports.

So, they’re now going to become even more dishonest in their reporting.

Starting with the February 2023 publication of CPI [Consumer Price Index] data for January 2023, the BLS will annually revise the CPI weights based on a single calendar year of data, utilising consumer expenditure data from 2021. This differs from the prior method, which updated weights using two years’ worth of expenditure data every two years.

In other words, the BLS is seeking out a higher baseline to be able to show a lower amount of increase.

Don’t forget, the BLS’ calculation of inflation has already been adjusted several times since the 1980s in order to report better inflation numbers than what consumers are actually suffering.

John Williams’ website (shadowstats.com) monitors flaws in government economic reporting and data. The chart below shows official inflation as reported by the US government (red line) versus inflation if calculated the same way it was calculated in 1980 (blue line.)

Shadowstats inflation now vs 1980 calculation - 2023.JPG

Real inflation is double digit right now. Consumers are angry about it because they’re struggling to even buy groceries and pay their bills. So the US government’s response is to just lie to you a little harder.

Who are you going to trust, your empty bank account or a politically-motivated federal bureaucrat?

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Negotiating Your Salary Is Flaunting Your Privilege

Back a couple decades ago I was told by an employer that there was no room for negotiation in my salary. In that situation, the reason given to me was that they had hired a consulting company whose survey of peer companies confirmed that the salary structure in place was very competitive and consistent with the marketplace. Those of us who quit that employer to earn higher wages elsewhere joked that the consulting company must have been surveying the wrong marketplace. Now that I’m older and wiser, I understand that the consulting company was not hired for the purpose of determining appropriate salary levels, it was hired to produce a survey validating that my employer did not need to increase compensation levels.

Apparently, employers don’t even have to blame consultants any more for salary inflexibility, they can just pat themselves on the back and state that they are fighting back against “privilege.”

I absolutely respect a business if it simply states, ”this is what we can pay you for this position at this time.” Hiding behind wokeness is a cynical sign of the times.

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Florida Man Considering Run for Indiana Senate Seat

Dear Indianans, here’s some friendly advice - stop electing Senators who don’t want to live in Indiana.

They don’t represent you and won’t represent you. (Do you remember the embarrassment when Senator Richard Lugar was denied the right to vote in his “home state” of Indiana because he had no residence there?)

You may be about to go down that path again, Indiana.

Former GOP Gov. Mitch Daniels to decide on Indiana Senate run in coming weeks [CNN – 01/19/2023]

Former Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels is likely to decide within the next two weeks whether he will run for Senate, a person close to Daniels said …
Rep. Jim Banks, a Donald Trump-aligned conservative from northeastern Indiana, has already entered the race. And the Club for Growth launched a preemptive ad attacking the 73-year-old Daniels, labeling him an “old guard Republican” who is “all out of fight.”
Daniels, from his home in Naples, Florida, spoke on the phone with Banks less than two weeks ago.

“…from his home in Naples, Florida…”

Naples, Florida is not in Indiana. It doesn’t even matter that Daniels is a Y2K-era “fiscal conservative” who doesn’t want to fight the culture war. His out of state residence is fully disqualifying for ordinary Indianans needing representation in Congress.

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THROCKMORTON’S FIRST LAW OF LIVE MUSIC: IF THERE’S AN UPRIGHT BASS IN THE BAND, IT’S PROBABLY GOING TO BE GOOD

Moving up my personal power ranking of live music acts that I’ve got to see is Pokey LaFarge. He brings the Tin Pan Alley era back to life, but he’s not just a novelty act, he’s an amazing musician.

Here’s a Dixieland-inspired song that we can all relate to: The Good Lord Giveth and the Government Taketh Away

Well the good Lord giveth and Uncle Sam taketh away
Yeah the good Lord giveth and Uncle Sam taketh away
Well I don't mind working night and day
But I'd like a little more take home pay
Yeah the good Lord giveth and Uncle Sam taketh away
The rent's so high cost me seven hundred dollars and a dime
The room's so small I had to go outside to change my mind
The electric bill’s way out of sight
The cost of food’s got me eating light
Well the good Lord giveth and Uncle Sam taketh away
The price of taxes going up each year that goes by
Well I guess you have to pay to live as well as pay to die
And I wouldn’t mind if I only knew
That I’d get back what I paid into
Well the good Lord giveth and Uncle Sam taketh away
Union benefits don’t mean a thing anymore
Work your whole life just to find out that you’re poor
Seems that the work I do just goes to pay
For a banker to sleep in a Swiss chalet
Yeah the good Lord giveth and Uncle Sam taketh away
Well the good Lord giveth and Uncle Sam taketh away
Yeah the good Lord giveth and Uncle Sam taketh away
Why work a job down at the plant
When I could go on welfare and get food stamps
Well the good Lord giveth and Uncle Sam taketh away

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 11:00 AM (Zz0t1)

2 1

Posted by: Skip at January 30, 2023 11:00 AM (Yth49)

3 I called the others.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 30, 2023 11:00 AM (nRMeC)

4 I've always found planting trees in some African shithole to make up for carbon emissions in the US an incredible scam that would separate a fool from their money.

It worked, especially since Al Gore is with $350m now.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 11:01 AM (Zz0t1)

5 See Sponge can get his own first and Buck brought his Monkey Face

Go get em Sponge

Posted by: Skip at January 30, 2023 11:01 AM (Yth49)

6 Carbon offsets are biggest bulk crap the Leftists ever invented

Posted by: Skip at January 30, 2023 11:02 AM (Yth49)

7 So I should get offset money if I don't mow my lawn, rite?

Posted by: Puddinhead at January 30, 2023 11:02 AM (tiR3O)

8 If you continue with your Starbucks habit, you’re going to submerge the Maldives!

"Ahem!" - Hank Johnson

Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2023 11:03 AM (ZGrMX)

9 For a fee commensurate with your gullibility commitment to carbon neutrality, I will deem you or your organization “carbon neutral” for all the trees I didn’t cut down in a given year.
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Ah, hostages held for ransom. The ultimate expression of the green agenda.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2023 11:03 AM (t0OGg)

10 Revealed: More Than 90% of Rainforest Carbon Offsets by Biggest Provider are Worthless, Analysis Shows (The Guardian – 01/18/2023]

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Unexpectedly.

Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at January 30, 2023 11:04 AM (TT+Ol)

11 Willowed...

@TheInsiderPaper · 8h
WATCH - Third-biggest egg farm in US catches fire, 21 fire departments respond to huge blaze

https://twitter.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/
1619963959221833729

21-second video.
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Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut · 23h
Apparently, the only secure classified document in DC… is the Jeffrey Epstein Client List.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 30, 2023 11:04 AM (Vwz3I)

12 Wow, long rant today.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 30, 2023 11:04 AM (pBUtp)

13 Not my monkey, not my rodeo.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 30, 2023 11:04 AM (uNylN)

14 Hahaha

The billions of Starbucks cups are single use and can only go to landfills, but have you LIVs thought about the coffee filters?

Posted by: You have to admit it's an awesome way to kick off Black People Month at January 30, 2023 11:04 AM (vuQMF)

15 Dani Daniels > Mitch Daniels

(do not investigate this claim if you are at work)

Posted by: spindrift at January 30, 2023 11:04 AM (h5TKJ)

16 I've always found planting trees in some African shithole to make up for carbon emissions in the US an incredible scam that would separate a fool from their money.

There was a study about 10 years ago now that showed the air exiting the US and Canada off the east coast (the jet stream blows west to east) is cleaner than when it entered thanks to the huge amount of forested land. That makes complete sense to those of us who've lived in flyover country, but is probably incomprehensible to your average Manhattanite or Angeleno.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2023 11:05 AM (ZGrMX)

17 There's an actual program you can sign up to for "free" money if you're not going to log your land. Just putting that out there.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 30, 2023 11:05 AM (eYoxG)

18 Throckmorton Carbon Offset Company, LLC.
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Throck COC. Got a ring to it!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 30, 2023 11:06 AM (vSzkg)

19 Returns tend to be like in the 1-2% range if the timber isn't assumed to be appreciating while not being logged iirc.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 30, 2023 11:06 AM (eYoxG)

20 Some of the more principled leftists

Does not compute.

Posted by: Captain and Tennille at January 30, 2023 11:06 AM (eOEVl)

21 Bitcoin and carbon offsets are two of the biggest scams I've ever seen.

Posted by: Archer at January 30, 2023 11:07 AM (gmo/4)

22 ... , I will deem you or your organization “carbon neutral” for all the trees I didn’t cut down in a given year.

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But wait, there's more! Since that land isn't being grazed on by farting cattle, you'll get a bonus carbon offset ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at January 30, 2023 11:07 AM (TT+Ol)

23 Guy Ritchie is reportedly working on Man From U.N.C.L.E. 2 w/ Henry Cavill back as Napoleon Solo: https://tinyurl.com/7224pvax

The article says that Armie Hammer, who's seen his career tank thanks to weird accusations, will not be back as Illya Kuryakin. To do the series right, Ritchie will have to recast the role. Solo without Illya is like peanut butter without bread!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 30, 2023 11:07 AM (J2vNu)

24 I often think I got into the wrong line of work if I wanted to get rich. Carbon offsets and other 'Green' branding would have been such an easy way to prey....ahem...partner with stupid, guilty, rich white people.

Should have been a business major. Or a pimp.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 30, 2023 11:08 AM (XvPQV)

25 Gov. Mike DeWine signed legislation that broadly expands the ability to drill for oil and gas in state parks and also legally redefines natural gas as a source of “green energy.”
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And why not? "Green" whatever is a work of pseudo-legal fiction anyway. Vast lithium mines worked by children where the product is shipped on vast steel ships that burn bunker oil to a processing plant that probably (depending on where it is) destroys the local environment to refine it, followed by more shipping in hydrocarbon-burning steel vessels to more factories that turn the refined product into batteries, which are then shipped to other factories that build those batteries into other things, which are then shipped to wholesalers who then ships them to retailers who then sells them to customers who drive to get them or have them delivered is one gigantic, polluting, environment-destroying "green" supply chain that is likely worked by literal slaves in at least one stage of the process.

Since "green" is nothing more than marketing, it's about time that Natural Gas got in on the action. Coal, too.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2023 11:08 AM (t0OGg)

26 Fuel Costs of Electric Vehicles Overtake Gas-Powered Cars

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Small price to pay to save the Erf.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at January 30, 2023 11:09 AM (FVME7)

27 Some of the more principled leftists...

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Bigfoot and a principled leftist walk into a bar.

Bartender asks, "Who's your imaginary friend?"

Bigfoot replies, "Who?"

Posted by: Muldoon at January 30, 2023 11:09 AM (ykeLU)

28 Bitcoin and carbon offsets are two of the biggest scams I've ever seen.

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It is an important distinction that your bitcoin can only be sold once, but you can sell the same carbon credit as many times as credulity will allow.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 30, 2023 11:09 AM (Qzn2/)

29 Bitcoin and carbon offsets are two of the biggest scams I've ever seen.

Carbon offsets are dumb, but if you think Bitcoin is a scam wait until you hear about the US dollar.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2023 11:09 AM (ZGrMX)

30 24 Should have been a business major. Or a pimp.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 30, 2023 11:08 AM (XvPQV)

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Think you could outfight Santino?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being extravagant with Erich von Stroheim at January 30, 2023 11:09 AM (LvTSG)

31 Cold enough for froze precip. I'm filling up my vehicles today.

Posted by: Eromero at January 30, 2023 11:09 AM (0OP+5)

32 There was a study about 10 years ago now that showed the air exiting the US and Canada off the east coast (the jet stream blows west to east) is cleaner than when it entered thanks to the huge amount of forested land. That makes complete sense to those of us who've lived in flyover country, but is probably incomprehensible to your average Manhattanite or Angeleno.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2023 11:05 AM (ZGrMX)
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Yuuuuup. And thanks to the paper and lumber industries, the US and Canada have seen net reforestation since the end of WWII. It turns out that the paper and lumber companies actually don't go carving up old-growth forests willy-nilly and are, in fact, massive agricultural concerns where the crop takes a long time to come in.

Shocking, that. Nobody could have seen it coming.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2023 11:10 AM (t0OGg)

33 DiedSuddenly @DiedSuddenly_ · Jan 29
36 year old Lindsey Lanoux has #DiedSuddenly from sudden cardiac arrest. She bragged on Facebook about getting her last booster and and dismissed 💉safety concerns: “F*ck the haters”

She even changed her cover photo to trust the “science”

How many more need to die?

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 30, 2023 11:10 AM (Vwz3I)

34 Bitcoin is no kore a scam than the dollar is.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 30, 2023 11:10 AM (Qzn2/)

35 How many more need to die?
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 30, 2023 11:10 AM (Vwz3I)

About 7 billion.

Posted by: WEF at January 30, 2023 11:11 AM (ZqJGw)

36 Why do you need another party to sell you a carbon offset? Indulge yourself.

Posted by: Muldoon at January 30, 2023 11:11 AM (ykeLU)

37 Real inflation is double digit right now. Consumers are angry about it because they’re struggling to even buy groceries and pay their bills. So the US government’s response is to just lie to you a little harder.

Gaslighting the public takes less effort than addressing the problem. Also...for the WEF and CCP-owned "elites" double digit inflation is a feature, not a bug. Inflation and taxation are the twin millstones with which to crush the middle class. They've been out to destroy socioeconomic mobility for ages, and this is one of many tools in the toolbox.

Posted by: Scratch a Progressive and reveal a Bolshevik at January 30, 2023 11:11 AM (UKe2c)

38 You are quite correct in assuming that consultants are called in--at great expense--to validate decisions that senior leadership has already made. They just use the consulting company as a fig leaf for their perfidy.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 30, 2023 11:12 AM (YIVH2)

39 Solo without Illya is like peanut butter without bread!
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[quizzical head tilt] ruh?

Posted by: jasper at January 30, 2023 11:12 AM (Vwz3I)

40 Unlike dollars, the number of bitcoins can't be inflated by a rapacious government. So the argument can be made that bitcoin is actually sounder than the dollar.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 30, 2023 11:12 AM (Qzn2/)

41 Charges dropped against Ashlii Babbitt s mother for disobeying orders and protesting without a permit .

Posted by: Jen the original at January 30, 2023 11:12 AM (N6MZz)

42 Buying carbon offsets and paying ransom are the same thing.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 30, 2023 11:13 AM (lTGtQ)

43 It doesn’t even matter that Daniels is a Y2K-era “fiscal conservative” who doesn’t want to fight the culture war.

..

All in.

Let's go!

Posted by: McConnell at January 30, 2023 11:13 AM (iSFki)

44 Since "green" is nothing more than marketing, it's about time that Natural Gas got in on the action. Coal, too.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2023 11:08 AM (t0OGg)

An old family friend built a pilot powerplant project for the NYC utility that used coal as fuel...but gassified. The smokestack emissions were identical to their natural gas plants.

No, it was not approved.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 30, 2023 11:13 AM (XIJ/X)

45 Yuuuuup. And thanks to the paper and lumber industries, the US and Canada have seen net reforestation since the end of WWII. It turns out that the paper and lumber companies actually don't go carving up old-growth forests willy-nilly and are, in fact, massive agricultural concerns where the crop takes a long time to come in.

Shocking, that. Nobody could have seen it coming.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2023 11:10 AM

Get. Out!

Posted by: The Lorax at January 30, 2023 11:13 AM (Vl0Ta)

46 Charges dropped against Ashlii Babbitt s mother for disobeying orders and protesting without a permit .
Posted by: Jen the original

Our benevolent overlords.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 30, 2023 11:14 AM (ZqJGw)

47 34 Bitcoin is no kore a scam than the dollar is.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 30, 2023 11:10 AM (Qzn2/)

The blockchain shit is at least sort of kind of tied to some sort of actual thing- which is more than can be said for the dollar. At the same time, even with fiat currency, we are seeing the effects of devaluation.

You know, it is interesting. You never see the term 'devaluation' used in relation to the inflation talk. I wonder why?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 30, 2023 11:14 AM (zZu0s)

48 36 Why do you need another party to sell you a carbon offset? Indulge yourself.
Posted by: Muldoon at January 30, 2023 11:11 AM (ykeLU)

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There is only one patron saint of indulgences and we have exclusive representation, my child.

Posted by: Pope Alexander VI at January 30, 2023 11:14 AM (Qzn2/)

49 MR. SCHULTZ: If you are reading this, please contact me at the email address below and I’ll absolve you of your carbon sinning for a mere $1 million per year, with offsets from the Throckmorton Carbon Offset Company. I’ll even send you a picture of the trees that aren’t being deforested upon receipt of your carbon offset payment.

Very funny, Buck. We need to thoroughly mock such folks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2023 11:14 AM (D+F6R)

50 I went to college with Mitch Daniels daughter when he was running for governor. "My Man Mitch" she sure was a looker. Sweet and down to earth too.

Posted by: Mishdog at January 30, 2023 11:15 AM (gWiKh)

51 And thanks to the paper and lumber industries, the US and Canada have seen net reforestation since the end of WWII.

Yup. People should be paying us (or at least paper companies) for carbon offsets.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2023 11:15 AM (ZGrMX)

52 How many more need to die?

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 30, 2023 11:10 AM (Vwz3I)

That's a trick question!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 30, 2023 11:15 AM (XIJ/X)

53 Please note that as an organization that strongly believes in equality for all, we have moved away from salary negotiation which disproportionately benefits people with privilege.

My response:

Are you saying that the CEO gets paid the same as a new-hire? Because if that's not what you're saying than this is bullshit.

Further, are you saying that no one is expected to work longer, or harder, than the least of you? Because if that's not what you're saying than this is bullshit.

And if these two things ARE what you're saying... I wish you well in the search for your next job after this company goes under... sometime around Tuesday.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 30, 2023 11:15 AM (GYIa4)

54 My grandmother every morning, would take the coffee grounds out to her flower beds and garden and spread them around to feed the flora and earthworms.

Who will think of the earthworms?!

Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 30, 2023 11:15 AM (Jg7EG)

55 50 I went to college with Mitch Daniels daughter when he was running for governor. "My Man Mitch" she sure was a ~~looker~~ hooker. Sweet and down to earth too.
Posted by: Mishdog at January 30, 2023 11:15 AM (gWiKh)

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What I first read. Really changes the meaning.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being extravagant with Erich von Stroheim at January 30, 2023 11:15 AM (LvTSG)

56 What uncle sam taketh uncle sam pisseth away.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 30, 2023 11:16 AM (VwHCD)

57 NBC POLL: 71% of Americans say the country is on the wrong track.
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Funny how little of a fuck you give about this number when you've sewn up elections and have necessary control over "both" parties.

Oh no wait that's just a conspiracy theory.

Posted by: ... at January 30, 2023 11:16 AM (hXoQI)

58 Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 30, 2023 11:10 AM (Vwz3I)

We have an article in my local online paper speaking of a 33 year old man who died "tragically". His wife was about to give birth in a month or so. The paper doesn't report what the tragic circumstances were.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2023 11:17 AM (D+F6R)

59 41 Charges dropped against Ashlii Babbitt s mother for disobeying orders and protesting without a permit .
Posted by: Jen the original at January 30, 2023 11:12 AM (N6MZz)

Because Ashlii is actually alive?
*X Files theme plays*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 30, 2023 11:17 AM (XvPQV)

60 Regarding "salary negotiation which disproportionately benefits people with privilege."

Can't that be said about job interviews as well?

And why are you assuming that I'm a person; today I identify as a trans-black-alien-dolphin, h8rs!

Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at January 30, 2023 11:17 AM (9Le5B)

61 Charges dropped against Ashlii Babbitt s mother for disobeying orders and protesting without a permit.
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They made up for that this way...

Julie Kelly @julie_kelly2 · 23h
Vengeful, inhumane DOJ strikes again.

Doctor who attempted to treat Ashli Babbitt gunshot wound just arrested and charged with 4 misdemeanors.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 30, 2023 11:17 AM (Vwz3I)

62 Gov. Gavin Newsom on the addiction crisis: "We all need to self-medicate periodically”

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That's the ticket! The Hunter Biden way!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at January 30, 2023 11:17 AM (FVME7)

63 My grandmother every morning, would take the coffee grounds out to her flower beds and garden and spread them around to feed the flora and earthworms.

Who will think of the earthworms?!

What, they were grumpy and sleepy?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 30, 2023 11:17 AM (eOEVl)

64 A carbon offset is the bastard offspring of an indulgence and an entitlement.

Posted by: Muldoon at January 30, 2023 11:17 AM (ykeLU)

65 NBC POLL: 71% of Americans say the country is on the wrong track.
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Funny how little of a fuck you give about this number when you've sewn up elections and have necessary control over "both" parties.

Oh no wait that's just a conspiracy theory.
Posted by: ... at January 30, 2023 11:16 AM (hXoQI)
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Nah, not at all. That 71% is sure it's the other guy's fault...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2023 11:17 AM (t0OGg)

66 47 34 Bitcoin is no kore a scam than the dollar is.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 30, 2023 11:10 AM (Qzn2/)

The blockchain shit is at least sort of kind of tied to some sort of actual thing- which is more than can be said for the dollar. At the same time, even with fiat currency, we are seeing the effects of devaluation.

You know, it is interesting. You never see the term 'devaluation' used in relation to the inflation talk. I wonder why?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 30, 2023 11:14 AM (zZu0s)

The end of a fiat currency tends to be somewhat foreseeable and in the interim is pretty stable and functional.

As for Bitcoin, we know it'll crash at some point based on a crisis of confidence caused by ??? at some unknown time. And it's also too unstable to be functional for everyday use.

Some of the infrastructure being built out for payment systems have potential though.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 30, 2023 11:17 AM (eYoxG)

67 >>Revealed: More Than 90% of Rainforest Carbon Offsets by Biggest Provider are Worthless, Analysis Shows (The Guardian – 01/18/2023]

I'm done playing this insane game the marxist have vomitted forth, man and his industrial output, does not produce enough CO2 to have any material effect on the climate.

And furthermore, these a**holes have not proved that atmospheric concentrations of CO2 are the main drivers of climate on the earth.

The main driver of climate of earth is the earth itself and that shiny orange orb that's roughly 92million miles in the sky.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 30, 2023 11:17 AM (vgYvF)

68
She even changed her cover photo to trust the “science”

How many more need to die?
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 30, 2023 11:10 AM (Vwz3I)

If you are a fauci cultist? All. Reap it, bitches.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 11:17 AM (Zz0t1)

69 wait until you hear about the US dollar.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2023 11:09 AM (ZGrMX)

Why? Just because it's paper and no longer backed by anything of real intrinsic value? Shirley, you jest.

Posted by: Archer at January 30, 2023 11:18 AM (gmo/4)

70 NBC POLL: 71% of Americans say the country is on the wrong track.
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Funny how little of a fuck you give about this number when you've sewn up elections and have necessary control over "both" parties.
==
*shrugs*

You just need better candidates, right?

Posted by: remain calm, all is well at January 30, 2023 11:18 AM (zNy7N)

71 39 Solo without Illya is like peanut butter without bread!
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[quizzical head tilt] ruh?
Posted by: jasper at January 30, 2023 11:12 AM (Vwz3I)

THAT'S A MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. REFERENCE!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 30, 2023 11:18 AM (XvPQV)

72 I got lucky a few years ago and was able to see Pokey LaFarge and company live. What a fabulous band - musical to the bone. If Pokey is playing in town, just go as it is a stellar set of music honed to a razor edge by years of touring.

Posted by: Lost in Space at January 30, 2023 11:19 AM (BPEYH)

73 54 My grandmother every morning, would take the coffee grounds out to her flower beds and garden and spread them around to feed the flora and earthworms.
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If you have Hydranga, then putting coffee grounds on the soil will make them darker blues and purple. Dittos for Black Strap Mollases dissolved in water. Just sayin.

Posted by: Puddinhead at January 30, 2023 11:19 AM (tiR3O)

74 71 39 Solo without Illya is like peanut butter without bread!
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[quizzical head tilt] ruh?
Posted by: jasper at January 30, 2023 11:12 AM (Vwz3I)

THAT'S A MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. REFERENCE!
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 30, 2023 11:18 AM (XvPQV)

Marty Robbins and now Man from Uncle?! Where will this madness end!?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 30, 2023 11:19 AM (zZu0s)

75 65 Nah, not at all. That 71% is sure it's the other guy's fault...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2023 11:17 AM (t0OGg)

=========

"This is all Trump's fault! Life was better when the last guy was president!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being extravagant with Erich von Stroheim at January 30, 2023 11:19 AM (LvTSG)

76 Cold enough for froze precip. I'm filling up my vehicles today.
Posted by: Eromero at January 30, 2023

***
I filled up the Buick yesterday w/ E0 87. It was only .23 more than the Exxon 87 E10 -- about 8% more. But E0 gives me about 10% better fuel mileage. Winning!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 30, 2023 11:19 AM (J2vNu)

77 NBC POLL: 71% of Americans say the country is on the wrong track.
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No one in DC cares what Americans think.

Posted by: I've got bad news for you at January 30, 2023 11:19 AM (iSFki)

78 Carbon credits are a scam inside hoax embedded in web of lies. So many levels of deception.

Posted by: Ripley at January 30, 2023 11:19 AM (cUYo/)

79 Should have been a business major. Or a pimp.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 30, 2023 11:08 AM (XvPQV)

=========

Think you could outfight Santino?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being extravagant with Erich von Stroheim at January 30, 2023 11:09 AM (LvTSG)

Fuck yeah, I could have. I know the difference between fighting and killing for one thing.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 30, 2023 11:19 AM (XvPQV)

80 Jeremy Loffredo @loffredojeremy · 1h
Once again Gates says all he did was have dinner w/ Epstein. But according to NYT & Gates’ own emails he was with Epstein “quite late” because “a very attractive Swedish woman and her daughter dropped by”

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 30, 2023 11:19 AM (Vwz3I)

81 Made a large pot of Healey chili yesterday. I will need some carbon offsets stat.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 30, 2023 11:19 AM (D25PY)

82 [quizzical head tilt] ruh?
Posted by: jasper
==
that's a peanut butter jar lid, opening sound, reference.

Posted by: Dana at January 30, 2023 11:19 AM (zNy7N)

83 Regarding "salary negotiation which disproportionately benefits people with privilege."

Reminds me of the fad in hotels where they only change your towels and sheets if you specifically request it, for Gaia you know. Strangely, none of the money they saved ever made its way to me.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 30, 2023 11:19 AM (eOEVl)

84 I dgaf what happens to the vaxxholes anymore.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 30, 2023 11:19 AM (ZqJGw)

85 Pretty soon we will have a Wizards and Warrior's Dirk Blackpool reference!

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 30, 2023 11:20 AM (zZu0s)

86 Buck, can I get in on this with you? I have six hackberry trees I was planning on cutting down. I think I can keep them uncut for the low rate of $10,000 per tree per year. I'll do it for mother earth.

Posted by: Mishdog at January 30, 2023 11:20 AM (gWiKh)

87 70 NBC POLL: 71% of Americans say the country is on the wrong track.
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And yet Fetterman is a Senator and the autistic mute of AZ is Governor.

Posted by: Puddinhead at January 30, 2023 11:20 AM (tiR3O)

88 Why? Just because it's paper and no longer backed by anything of real intrinsic value? Shirley, you jest.

Most of it's not even paper, just bits in a database somewhere.

Posted by: Oddbob at January 30, 2023 11:21 AM (nfrXX)

89 Carbon credits are a scam inside hoax embedded in web of lies. So many levels of deception.
==
about as legitimate as alpaca farming

Posted by: don't ask me how I know at January 30, 2023 11:21 AM (zNy7N)

90 NBC POLL: 71% of Americans say the country is on the wrong track.

You're wrong, fat. This economy is GANGBUSTERS. I'll take you behind the GYM if you want. PUSH UPS!! My hairy legs and MY BUTT'S BEEN WIPED!!!

Posted by: Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 11:21 AM (Zz0t1)

91 Why? Just because it's paper and no longer backed by anything of real intrinsic value? Shirley, you jest.

"It's worth things! My word as a Biden!" - Joe

Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2023 11:21 AM (ZGrMX)

92 >>>71% of Americans say the country is on the wrong track.>>>
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Yeah, and that's why they voted D in the midterms.

Posted by: Ziba at January 30, 2023 11:22 AM (4h9M3)

93 Solo without Illya is like peanut butter without bread!
==========
[quizzical head tilt] ruh?
Posted by: jasper

THAT'S A MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. REFERENCE!
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water
********
IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE IT WAS ACTUALLY A BESTIALITY REFERENCE!

Posted by: Ben Roethlisberger at January 30, 2023 11:22 AM (Vwz3I)

94 93 Solo without Illya is like peanut butter without bread!
==========
[quizzical head tilt] ruh?
Posted by: jasper

THAT'S A MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. REFERENCE!
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water
********
IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE IT WAS ACTUALLY A BESTIALITY REFERENCE!
Posted by: Ben Roethlisberger at January 30, 2023 11:22 AM (Vwz3I)

I get it!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 30, 2023 11:23 AM (XvPQV)

95 Yeah, and that's why ~~they voted~~ their votes were counted as D in the midterms.

Fixed it for ya.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2023 11:23 AM (ZGrMX)

96 Why? Just because it's paper and no longer backed by anything of real intrinsic value? Shirley, you jest.

Posted by: Archer at January 30, 2023 11:18 AM

I think he's serious. And stop calling him Shirley.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 30, 2023 11:23 AM (Vl0Ta)

97 Dani Daniels > Mitch Daniels

(do not investigate this claim if you are at work)
Posted by: spindrift at January 30, 2023 11:04 AM (h5TKJ)

How long will it be before she, like pretty much every other porn star, starts whining about how she totally regrets doing it, it should be illegal, she just wants to be treated like every other woman who hasn't had sex on camera with a few thousand guys...

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 30, 2023 11:23 AM (GYIa4)

98 ***
I filled up the Buick yesterday w/ E0 87. It was only .23 more than the Exxon 87 E10 -- about 8% more. But E0 gives me about 10% better fuel mileage. Winning!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 30, 2023 11:19 AM (J2vNu)

Best part about going to Oklahoma now is most fuel stations have gas (ethanol is shit, not gas) along side. You used to have to find a station that carried it. Now most do.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 11:23 AM (Zz0t1)

99 >>Revealed: More Than 90% of Rainforest Carbon Offsets by Biggest Provider are Worthless, Analysis Shows (The Guardian – 01/18/2023]

Who'd athunk it?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at January 30, 2023 11:23 AM (FVME7)

100 92 >>>71% of Americans say the country is on the wrong track.>>>
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Yeah, and that's why they voted D in the midterms.
Posted by: Ziba at January 30, 2023 11:22 AM (4h9M3)

"voted", sure

Heck, half the people in that pool probably thinks American isn't Socialist enough.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 30, 2023 11:23 AM (XvPQV)

101 93 Solo without Illya is like peanut butter without bread!
==========
[quizzical head tilt] ruh?
Posted by: jasper

THAT'S A MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. REFERENCE!
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water
********
IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE IT WAS ACTUALLY A BESTIALITY REFERENCE!
Posted by: Ben Roethlisberger at January 30, 2023 11:22 AM (Vwz3I)

*puts fingers in ears*

IT WAS A MAN FROM UNCLE REFERENCE!

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 30, 2023 11:23 AM (zZu0s)

102 Bitcoin and carbon offsets are two of the biggest scams I've ever seen.
Posted by: Archer at January 30, 2023 11:07 AM (gmo/4)

Hold my beer. -- NFTs

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 30, 2023 11:24 AM (GYIa4)

103 I think I'm due some carbon offset cash for not drinking Starbucks this morning.

Posted by: t-bird at January 30, 2023 11:24 AM (e2onP)

104 62 Gov. Gavin Newsom on the addiction crisis: "We all need to self-medicate periodically”

-
That's the ticket! The Hunter Biden way!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at January 30, 2023 11:17 AM (FVME7)

In 2019, I think.

Posted by: m at January 30, 2023 11:25 AM (lhS81)

105 She even changed her cover photo to trust the “science”

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Fauci performing anal swabs?

Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at January 30, 2023 11:25 AM (ns4uC)

106 At phys.org: "Cooking a delicious risotto and making plastics are actually very similar processes"

Chef Ramsey explosion in 3, 2, ...

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at January 30, 2023 11:25 AM (24fqN)

107
Hold my beer. -- NFTs
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 30, 2023 11:24 AM (GYIa4)

NFT's in video games is expected to be a $15bn industry this year.........

Millennials are stupid.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 11:25 AM (Zz0t1)

108 Buck, can I get in on this with you? I have six hackberry trees I was planning on cutting down. I think I can keep them uncut for the low rate of $10,000 per tree per year. I'll do it for mother earth.

Posted by: Mishdog at January 30, 2023 11:20 AM (gWiKh)

Do dead trees count? We have 2 that need cutting. What do we get for leaving them up?

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at January 30, 2023 11:25 AM (Mzdiz)

109 Apparently, employers don’t even have to blame consultants any more for salary inflexibility, they can just pat themselves on the back and state that they are fighting back against “privilege.”
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It's disingenuous, of course. It stems from two fairly reliable conditions:
1. Your initial salary in a company is a good indicator of your final salary in that company, so negotiating up-front for more money often results in significantly higher pay down the road as compared to someone who didn't, even if the initial difference is more modest (assuming both people being studied are approximately equivalent).
2. Women tend not to negotiate up-front.

This is disequitable because non-privileged people (read: women, generally) earn less over time due to lack of negotiating talent or willingness in the initial hiring process.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2023 11:25 AM (t0OGg)

110 Doctor who attempted to treat Ashli Babbitt gunshot wound just arrested and charged with 4 misdemeanors.
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Looks like his name is now Mudd.

Posted by: mustbequantum at January 30, 2023 11:25 AM (MIKMs)

111 Revealed: More Than 90% of Rainforest Carbon Offsets by Biggest Provider are Worthless

You know what's more than 90%? 100%

Posted by: t-bird at January 30, 2023 11:26 AM (e2onP)

112 I think I'm due some carbon offset cash for not drinking Starbucks this morning.
Posted by: t-bird at January 30, 2023

***
I never drink Starbucks. I figure I'm owed enough to retire! Whoo-hoo!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 30, 2023 11:26 AM (J2vNu)

113 107
Hold my beer. -- NFTs
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 30, 2023 11:24 AM (GYIa4)

NFT's in video games is expected to be a $15bn industry this year.........

Millennials are stupid.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 11:25 AM (Zz0t1)

Actual NFTs or cosmetics?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 30, 2023 11:26 AM (eYoxG)

114 "Unlike dollars, the number of bitcoins can't be inflated by a rapacious government. So the argument can be made that bitcoin is actually sounder than the dollar."

the fed reserve was supposed to maintain a stable currency. They now act to help the markets and to lie to us about inflation.

But the current rate raise (imo) is necessary. Problem is the BigGov goons just keep spending trillions with no interest in a "balanced budget". It is grand theft country at this point.

But Bitcoin is not stable, although the concept of taking the power from BigGov is noble.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 30, 2023 11:26 AM (Cus5s)

115
What's the putative rationale for charging the doctor?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 30, 2023 11:26 AM (oINRc)

116 How long will it be before she, like pretty much every other porn star, starts whining about how she totally regrets doing it, it should be illegal, she just wants to be treated like every other woman who hasn't had sex on camera with a few thousand guys...
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Oh like you never did anything you regretted? I don't begrudge anyone who wakes up and smells the covfefe. People got problems, and they do stupid shit. Congrats to anyone that finally pulls there head out of their ass and gets right.

Posted by: regrets -- I've had a few at January 30, 2023 11:26 AM (AldiP)

117 I saw Froze Precip open for Earth Wind and Fire at Mt. Rainier in '79. Blew me away!

Posted by: Muldoon at January 30, 2023 11:26 AM (ykeLU)

118 Twitter noob discovery #2: unfollowing just one bad account improves feed by 80%.

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at January 30, 2023 11:27 AM (24fqN)

119 I'm thinking if I stay at home all day instead of going to work I can sell that as a carbon offset. However I am not eating bugs.

Posted by: Ripley at January 30, 2023 11:27 AM (cUYo/)

120 Hold my beer. -- NFTs

Art sales have always been a scam (just look at the $10 million MLK handjob statue). NFTs just make it more obvious.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2023 11:27 AM (ZGrMX)

121 You got Man from UNCLE on my bestiality reference!

You got bestiality on my Man from UNCLE reference!

Mmm.

Two great Moron references that taste great together.

Posted by: zombie H. B. Reese Sr. at January 30, 2023 11:28 AM (Vwz3I)

122 Indianans?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 30, 2023 11:28 AM (63Dwl)

123 Do dead trees count? We have 2 that need cutting. What do we get for leaving them up?

A hole in your roof, potentially?

Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2023 11:28 AM (ZGrMX)

124 Morning all... Just realized next week starts Black History Month... Oh Joy....

Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2023 11:28 AM (bs+z0)

125 If you are a fauci cultist? All. Reap it, bitches.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 11:17 AM (Zz0t1)

I do feel sorry for relatives and friends of the Vaxx enthusiasts who didn't get the shot and put up with their overeager friends and relatives (although I hope that the woman who died wasn't mocking her non vaccinated family and friends-"just" people whom she didn't know,

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2023 11:29 AM (D+F6R)

126 Dem Adam Schiff Admits He “Should’ve Been More Clear” When Talking To Press During Impeachment Hoax

Yes, you should have pointed out you're pencil-necked, lying pond scum.

https://tinyurl.com/59yz8fbz

Posted by: Archimedes at January 30, 2023 11:29 AM (eOEVl)

127 Do dead trees count? We have 2 that need cutting. What do we get for leaving them up?
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at January 30, 2023 11:25 AM (Mzdiz)

Sure, just paint them green! Maybe you get more cash if an "endangered owl" makes a nest in them.

Posted by: Mishdog at January 30, 2023 11:30 AM (gWiKh)

128 Morning all... Just realized next week starts Black History Month... Oh Joy....

That means only 4 more months to 6 months of Pride Month!

Posted by: Lost in Space at January 30, 2023 11:30 AM (BPEYH)

129 "Morning all... Just realized next week starts Black History Month... Oh Joy...."

More Booker T Washington, less Assata Shakur, please.

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at January 30, 2023 11:30 AM (24fqN)

130
Best part about going to Oklahoma now is most fuel stations have gas (ethanol is shit, not gas) along side. You used to have to find a station that carried it. Now most do.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 1

***
Not too many stations here offer E0 at all. A Walmart (Murphy Oil) about 20 miles from me has E0 premium (93), but it's $1.00+ more than their E0 87 (and the Buick does not need premium). A couple of local independent service places that sell gas have E0, but again, it's more than 10% greater in price than is E10 of the same grade.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 30, 2023 11:30 AM (J2vNu)

131 Well, yes, 100% is more than 90%.

Posted by: aelfheld at January 30, 2023 11:30 AM (Zy9Yy)

132 125 Morning all... Just realized next week starts Black History Month... Oh Joy....
Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2023 11:28 AM (bs+z0)

So soon after Pride month!?!?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 30, 2023 11:30 AM (eYoxG)

133 The five guys that kick Tyre to death are all members of Memphis PD's Scorpion Squad. Methinks they have a PR problem.

Posted by: Puddinhead at January 30, 2023 11:30 AM (tiR3O)

134 Newsom "clean and sober"

https://tinyurl.com/y93rj5du

@Twolfrecovery
May 19, 2022
Replying to
@Twolfrecovery
Yes. Newsom said that in 2019. It's not even taken out of context. It's abundantly clear at this point that we need sober housing for those that want and need it. Putting down recovery and the notion that it's a mistake to have "Clean and sober" housing doesn't help anybody.

Posted by: m at January 30, 2023 11:30 AM (lhS81)

135 Why? Just because it's paper and no longer backed by anything of real intrinsic value? Shirley, you jest.
Posted by: Archer at January 30, 2023 11:18 AM (gmo/4)
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No, because you can use it to pay your taxes. Whatever is accepted by the ruling authority for the payment of taxes will become the dominant marker of value. If you don't pay the tax, you end up dead or in prison or in a slave camp, depending on the system in place - and this is also why Bitcoin and its analogues are not money. The USD (or the GBP or the CAD or whatever national currency you wish to use) is special *because* it is official and can be used to pay the vig to the government. Keeping a dual currency at bay is why the legal tender is for ALL debts. No binary system of "official" money used for public debt and taxes and "unofficial" money for the private sector. That results in collapse - either of the unofficial currency (Gresham's law) or of the government that tried it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2023 11:30 AM (t0OGg)

136 Fake Dr. gets arrested in op perpetrated to get Trump. If the feds don't know it was an op, who organized it? Why haven't all the OTHER f*cks that everyone knows was part of it not arrested? Like that crackhead bulgy eyed dude and the others that were interviewed as witnesses?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 11:31 AM (Zz0t1)

137 130 "Morning all... Just realized next week starts Black History Month... Oh Joy...."

More Booker T Washington, less Assata Shakur, please.
Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at January 30, 2023 11:30 AM (24fqN)

========

If Biden dies, Kamala will nominate Shakur to be her VP, and the GOPe will vote for her.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being extravagant with Erich von Stroheim at January 30, 2023 11:31 AM (LvTSG)

138 Morning all... Just realized next week starts Black History Month... Oh Joy....

Black history month >>>>> Pride month.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2023 11:31 AM (ZGrMX)

139 Just read Biden invited Tyree(sp) Nichols parents to the SOTU address ... What a surprise... Not

Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2023 11:31 AM (bs+z0)

140 THROCKMORTON’S FIRST LAW OF LIVE MUSIC: IF THERE’S AN UPRIGHT BASS IN THE BAND, IT’S PROBABLY GOING TO BE GOOD

True. Horizontal bass players have usually OD'ed and are approaching room temp.

Plays hell with their playing.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2023 11:32 AM (ZVVGW)

141 Good comments. More coffee, please. Slurp.

Posted by: Cosda at January 30, 2023 11:32 AM (6TWy6)

142 ***
Not too many stations here offer E0 at all. A Walmart (Murphy Oil) about 20 miles from me has E0 premium (93), but it's $1.00+ more than their E0 87 (and the Buick does not need premium). A couple of local independent service places that sell gas have E0, but again, it's more than 10% greater in price than is E10 of the same grade.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 30, 2023 11:30 AM (J2vNu)

Random station in Norman had it's own handle at each pump. You used to have to search for it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 11:32 AM (Zz0t1)

143 Morning all... Just realized next week starts Black History Month... Oh Joy....

Just in time to finish some papier mache monuments for the BLM parade floats.

Posted by: Ziba at January 30, 2023 11:33 AM (4h9M3)

144 You want the trees cut down eventually and turned into e.g. furniture and houses because that sequesters their CO2; if they die, fall down and start rotting [or burn in a forest fire], that releases their CO2. The Groins never discuss that for some reason.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 30, 2023 11:33 AM (Vwz3I)

145 134 The five guys that kick Tyre to death are all members of Memphis PD's Scorpion Squad. Methinks they have a PR problem.
Posted by: Puddinhead at January 30, 2023 11:30 AM (tiR3O)

What did you expect? I am a Scorpion.

Damn. that really IS on the nose.

Posted by: Aesop at January 30, 2023 11:33 AM (zZu0s)

146 Nobody whom I knew who got the Covid shot pressured me to get it. Either they were nice people who felt that it was my business or they figured I received it, but they didn't ask,

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2023 11:33 AM (D+F6R)

147
It's strange but I think my hoodie smells like cracklin' cornbread

Posted by: John Fetterman at January 30, 2023 11:34 AM (vwCZJ)

148 Just read Biden invited Tyree(sp) Nichols parents to the SOTU address ... What a surprise... Not
_________

Yeah. Let's nationalize a local police problem. Let's conflate a single incident into a national problem.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 30, 2023 11:34 AM (lf83v)

149 My hopes for the Man From U.N.C.L.E. 2 film, if it does get made, is that they get a solid script like the first one, leave it as a period piece (early to mid-'60s), and cast Illya with someone who has the same chemistry as Hammer did with Cavill (or as McCallum did with Vaughn in the original).

And that the studio actually promotes the film, unlike what they did with the first one.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 30, 2023 11:34 AM (J2vNu)

150 So Biden is going to do a big song and dance in the SOTU about racism and poor policing when all the cops were Black Uh huh.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2023 11:35 AM (D+F6R)

151 Look, I just like the taste of peanut butter. That's all!

Posted by: Zombie Jasper at January 30, 2023 11:35 AM (9QMtn)

152 Horizontal bass players have usually OD'ed and are approaching room temp.

Plays hell with their playing.

Counterpoint: James Jamerson nailed Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" in one take while lying on his back on the floor drunk.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2023 11:35 AM (ZGrMX)

153
in yet another grim milestone for the biden administration, hockeyball legend Bobby Hull has passed away at age 84

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 30, 2023 11:35 AM (ENBF0)

154 The five guys that kick Tyre to death are all members of Memphis PD's Scorpion Squad.

I saw on Twitter they were all highly touted diversity hires too.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2023 11:36 AM (ZGrMX)

155 But Bitcoin is not stable, although the concept of taking the power from BigGov is noble.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 30, 2023 11:26 AM (Cus5s)

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Agreed. Brilliant idea, and the blockchain has many potential applications -- but like all noble ventures, it will eventually be seen as a threat to and thus criminalized and/or monopolized by governments.

Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at January 30, 2023 11:36 AM (ns4uC)

156 Nobody whom I knew who got the Covid shot pressured me to get it. Either they were nice people who felt that it was my business or they figured I received it, but they didn't ask,
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2023

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That's good to hear, Fen. In my case, individuals didn't. My employer, however, threatened me with loss of my job.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 30, 2023 11:36 AM (J2vNu)

157 Just read Biden invited Tyree(sp) Nichols parents to the SOTU address ... What a surprise... Not
Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2023 11:31 AM (bs+z0)

They shouldn't go. What if inherent, structural racism murders them during the speech?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 30, 2023 11:36 AM (GYIa4)

158 Yeah. Let's nationalize a local police problem. Let's conflate a single incident into a national problem.
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Odds Biden giving the SOTU address does:
1. Drools
2. Eye Bleed
3. Mentions Corn Pop
4. Shits himself

Posted by: Puddinhead at January 30, 2023 11:36 AM (tiR3O)

159 So Biden is going to do a big song and dance in the SOTU about racism and poor policing when all the cops were Black Uh huh.
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Its systemic. Anyone, no matter the race, employed in law enforcement, is a racist. The fact that all the cops were black is the proof that is systemic. Watch.

Posted by: well, you see . . . at January 30, 2023 11:37 AM (nSS0D)

160 Random station in Norman had it's own handle at each pump. You used to have to search for it.
Posted by: Sponge

Buc-eey's has E0 pumps. Higher than a cat's back.
We have a local station in town across the street from a fuel supplier that has E0 for only about .50 cents higher than regular.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2023 11:37 AM (ZVVGW)

161 The commies now have full control of CO legistlature and Governor's office so they are probably rolling it back; but years ago the greenies got a state initiative passed for Colorado to produce X% electricity from green sources and some of the Rs wrote up a bill and got it passed to include natural gas in the mix of "green sources." And that was not a pure win as they replaced cheaper coal powered electricity with natural gas. But it was the solution to avoid cutting electric use by a huge amount to meet the crazy demand in the ballot initiative.

Posted by: PaleRider at January 30, 2023 11:37 AM (3cGpq)

162 it will eventually be seen as a threat to and thus criminalized and/or monopolized by governments.

The recent omnibus funds the Fed to make their own cryptocoin. It's definitely coming.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2023 11:37 AM (ZGrMX)

163 160 Its systemic. Anyone, no matter the race, employed in law enforcement, is a racist. The fact that all the cops were black is the proof that is systemic. Watch.
Posted by: well, you see . . . at January 30, 2023 11:37 AM (nSS0D)

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Van Jones, is that you?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being extravagant with Erich von Stroheim at January 30, 2023 11:37 AM (LvTSG)

164 in yet another grim milestone for the biden administration, hockeyball legend Bobby Hull has passed away at age 84
Posted by: AltonJackson at January 30, 2023 11:35 AM (ENBF0)

The Golden Jet, father of The Golden Brett, legend, gone.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 11:37 AM (Zz0t1)

165 Just realized next week starts Black History Month

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So if the Rev. Al Sharpton pokes his head up and sees racism that means another six years of reparations?

#PunxatawneyAl

Posted by: Muldoon at January 30, 2023 11:37 AM (ykeLU)

166 What I first read. Really changes the meaning.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being extravagant with Erich von Stroheim at January 30, 2023 11:15 AM (LvTSG)

Lol, there's a joke in there something about Hoosier Daddy, but I'm struggling...

Posted by: Mishdog at January 30, 2023 11:37 AM (gWiKh)

167 Fuel Costs of Electric Vehicles Overtake Gas-Powered Cars

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So the vehicles themselves cost double what the comparable ICE vehicles cost. Weigh twice as much, which will mean tires twice as often. Require $5000 in garage upgrades (assuming you've got a garage) to charge overnight in order to still not perform the same work as the ICE vehicle, and require $10k+ battery replacements after five or so years so that I can continue barely using it...

Sign me up!

Posted by: You have to admit it's an awesome way to kick off Black People Month at January 30, 2023 11:38 AM (vuQMF)

168 162 The commies now have full control of CO legistlature and Governor's office so they are probably rolling it back; but years ago the greenies got a state initiative passed for Colorado to produce X% electricity from green sources and some of the Rs wrote up a bill and got it passed to include natural gas in the mix of "green sources." And that was not a pure win as they replaced cheaper coal powered electricity with natural gas. But it was the solution to avoid cutting electric use by a huge amount to meet the crazy demand in the ballot initiative.
Posted by: PaleRider at January 30, 2023 11:37 AM (3cGpq)

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Republicans shouldn't have tried. Colorado wants to be a Stone Age state, and there's no getting in the way of that anymore.

I say, let 'em crash.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being extravagant with Erich von Stroheim at January 30, 2023 11:38 AM (LvTSG)

169 Odds Biden giving the SOTU address does:
1. Drools
2. Eye Bleed
3. Mentions Corn Pop
4. Shits himself
__________

They will ship him up to Rehobeth and pump him full of B12 and electrolytes for three straight days to prepare him for the SOTU.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 30, 2023 11:38 AM (lf83v)

170 Leftists: someone, somewhere, is enjoying one of God's abundant blessings. I must stop it!

Posted by: Emmie at January 30, 2023 11:39 AM (Emce2)

171 Charges dropped against Ashlii Babbitt s mother for disobeying orders and protesting without a permit .
Posted by: Jen the original

Given last week's thread and videos outlining how/why Ashlii Babbitt may be an OP by the PTB, are we sure the mother isn't part of the 'sheepdip' cleansing?

Posted by: BifBewalski at January 30, 2023 11:39 AM (3CCua)

172 139 Morning all... Just realized next week starts Black History Month... Oh Joy....

Black history month >>>>> Pride month.
Posted by: Ian S.
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Notice how The Man put Black History month in February, the shortest of months. That's blatant Racism, yo!!

(Getting ahead of future outrages)

Posted by: Puddleglum at January 30, 2023 11:39 AM (sAmhv)

173 They will ship him up to Rehobeth and pump him full of B12 and electrolytes for three straight days to prepare him for the SOTU.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 30, 2023 11:38 AM (lf83v

They'll use his more coherent double... Removes tin foil hat

Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2023 11:39 AM (bs+z0)

174 Jasper's dead??

I didn't know that.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 30, 2023 11:39 AM (Vwz3I)

175
Buc-eey's has E0 pumps. Higher than a cat's back.
We have a local station in town across the street from a fuel supplier that has E0 for only about .50 cents higher than regular.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2023 11:37 AM (ZVVGW)

It actually surprises me Bucee's is so high on their standard fuel price. They're usually lower on everything else.

I'm still contemplating running it in all my lawn equipment this year. It runs so much better in the small stuff.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 11:39 AM (Zz0t1)

176 The recent omnibus funds the Fed to make their own cryptocoin. It's definitely coming.
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The CIA has its perks already imbedded with Bitcoin. They just want to know who is sending and receiving money besides the CIA.

Posted by: Puddinhead at January 30, 2023 11:39 AM (tiR3O)

177 You want Orwellian?

I'll give you Orwellian!

https://nitter.moomoo.me/i/status/1620061402294800384

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 30, 2023 11:39 AM (vSzkg)

178 Its systemic. Anyone, no matter the race, employed in law enforcement, is a racist. The fact that all the cops were black is the proof that is systemic. Watch.

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Even better is recognized that it is black culture on both sides of the incident, and the officers were affirmative action hires put in place under lower standards.

Posted by: You have to admit it's an awesome way to kick off Black People Month at January 30, 2023 11:39 AM (vuQMF)

179 169 162 The commies now have full control of CO legistlature and Governor's office so they are probably rolling it back; but years ago the greenies got a state initiative passed for Colorado to produce X% electricity from green sources and some of the Rs wrote up a bill and got it passed to include natural gas in the mix of "green sources." And that was not a pure win as they replaced cheaper coal powered electricity with natural gas. But it was the solution to avoid cutting electric use by a huge amount to meet the crazy demand in the ballot initiative.
Posted by: PaleRider at January 30, 2023 11:37 AM (3cGpq)

========

Republicans shouldn't have tried. Colorado wants to be a Stone Age state, and there's no getting in the way of that anymore.

I say, let 'em crash.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being extravagant with Erich von Stroheim at January 30, 2023 11:38 AM (LvTSG)

Just need to get that wall up.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 30, 2023 11:39 AM (eYoxG)

180 A fool and his money buy carbon offsets.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 30, 2023 11:39 AM (DhOHl)

181 Nobody whom I knew who got the Covid shot pressured me to get it. Either they were nice people who felt that it was my business or they figured I received it, but they didn't ask,
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2023 11:33 AM (D+F6R)

My SIL wouldn't be in the same house as filthy vaxx deniers and shrieked at my spouse (hard to remember to use gender neutral terms - suck it feds), who visited her in the hospital when she was there for some minor thing, when she found out that we were unclean.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 30, 2023 11:40 AM (GYIa4)

182 Let's conflate a single incident into a national problem.
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Sure, why should they change their MO now? They're winning.

Posted by: Ziba at January 30, 2023 11:40 AM (4h9M3)

183 Slave Children's March, John Williams

https://youtu.be/dny0-U29Ygw

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 30, 2023 11:41 AM (ybIRR)

184 I'm still contemplating running it in all my lawn equipment this year. It runs so much better in the small stuff.
-

All it will take is having to replace one piece of equipment that the corn messed up before you do it.

Trust me, it's worth the minor fuel cost.

Posted by: You have to admit it's an awesome way to kick off Black People Month at January 30, 2023 11:41 AM (vuQMF)

185 So the vehicles themselves cost double what the comparable ICE vehicles cost. Weigh twice as much, which will mean tires twice as often. Require $5000 in garage upgrades (assuming you've got a garage) to charge overnight in order to still not perform the same work as the ICE vehicle, and require $10k+ battery replacements after five or so years so that I can continue barely using it...

Sign me up!

Posted by: You have to admit it's an awesome way to kick off Black People Month at January 30, 2023 11:38 AM

Battery replacement costs can be about $20,000 depending on the type of vehicle. One lady had an estimate for $32,000 IIRC.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 30, 2023 11:41 AM (uNylN)

186 When you stop buying coffee, high-altitude growers immediately switch over to coca, khat, or ganja. There is an unseen hand at work here, and it is stoned as a futhermucker.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 30, 2023 11:41 AM (jYCXf)

187 So Biden is going to do a big song and dance in the SOTU about racism and poor policing when all the cops were Black Uh huh.

Can't wait to see how Biden tries to blame this on "the man" and systemic racism since the cops are black. The blithering idiot is "the man" in charge of our racist system.

Posted by: Ripley at January 30, 2023 11:42 AM (cUYo/)

188 Van Jones, is that you?
=
I married Amy Carter, got a Job in media and later divorced her. Later I got a 100 million dollar courage an civility grant from Jeff Bezos. Coincidence? It was either that or a book contract and frankly, book contract money wasn't enough.

Posted by: well, you see . . . at January 30, 2023 11:42 AM (+mAw6)

189 Eh, here's the Newsom (2020) thing. I don't know. This looks iffy.

https://archive.is/gOGqT

Newsom: “Clean and sober is the biggest damn mistake this country ever made.” Should clean and sober rules be thrown out for homeless?

"Governor Gavin Newsom admits he likes to self-medicate with a glass of win [!] while watching the nightly news."

Posted by: m at January 30, 2023 11:42 AM (lhS81)

190 > Just read Biden invited Tyree(sp) Nichols parents to the SOTU address ... What a surprise... Not
______________

Heh... old white segregationist and KKK curious demented old man to discuss racist white supremacy inflicted by 5 black guys on another black guy.

Comedy gold.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 30, 2023 11:42 AM (Q4IgG)

191 Its systemic. Anyone, no matter the race, employed in law enforcement, is a racist. The fact that all the cops were black is the proof that is systemic. Watch.
Posted by: well, you see . . . at January 30, 2023 11:37 AM (nSS0D)

There are cops at the Capitol. Why have no minority Congress persons, their spouses, their aides, etc. ever been beaten by systemic law enforcement?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 30, 2023 11:42 AM (GYIa4)

192 "Get AWAY FROM ME!!! You'll give me COVID!!!!"

"But you're 'vaccinated.'"

"AAAAARRRRGGGGGHHHH!H!!!!!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 11:42 AM (Zz0t1)

193 Was Tyre an aspiring rap artist?

Posted by: Puddinhead at January 30, 2023 11:43 AM (tiR3O)

194 Hey Canadian researchers.
I drink one cup of coffee a day.
Fu*k you.
Now I'm gonna drink two.
Why? Because this will give poor Juan a raise in wages and when he makes enough to pay a coyote to haul his sorry ass across my southern border, I'll make sure he gets across my northern border.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 30, 2023 11:43 AM (anj39)

195 Re. other dicussions this morning:

CarDealershipGuy @GuyDealership
$250K mark-up on a Porsche 😩

https://tinyurl.com/jb3br7wt

[Mercedes-Benz bill photo just a couple of tweets below.]

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 30, 2023 11:43 AM (Vwz3I)

196 "There is no room for negotiation on your salary".

Well I was negotiating with your competitors down the street so....

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 30, 2023 11:43 AM (8u+8P)

197 So Biden is going to do a big song and dance in the SOTU about racism and poor policing when all the cops were Black Uh huh.
_________

The Capitol cop who shot the unarmed Ashli Babbit was black. Will the Drooling Dunce talk about her?

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 30, 2023 11:43 AM (lf83v)

198 Agreed. Brilliant idea, and the blockchain has many potential applications -- but like all noble ventures, it will eventually be seen as a threat to and thus criminalized and/or monopolized by governments.
Posted by: ShainS
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Major issue with blockchain are the ledger servers that serve to verify transactions which are susceptible to government coercion.

Witness that fed retrieval of teh bitcoins paid as ransom for the Colonial Pipeline blackmail a few years ago. Essentially, the feds went back through the blockchain and reversed all the transactions so that the bitcoins in the pirates hands were seized.

Now, knowing the government, they could simply be lying about reversing the chain. But then again, no one really knows much about how Bitcoin was invented and it is very possible that intel agencies were involved in its invention. Another rumor is that Bitcoin was a designed to be a distributed way to find prime numbers well beyond those known for cryptographic reasons. So, either way, both government money today or crypto currencies are both black boxes that can be manipulated by bad actors.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2023 11:43 AM (YL0ac)

199 Real ice situations haven't even started yet and cars are piling up everywhere.

WHY are people sofa king stupid now? USE BRAIN. IT MAKE THINGS BETTAH.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 11:43 AM (Zz0t1)

200 200

Posted by: m at January 30, 2023 11:43 AM (lhS81)

201 Heh... old white segregationist and KKK curious demented old man to discuss racist white supremacy inflicted by 5 black guys on another black guy.

Comedy gold.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 30, 2023 11:42 AM (Q4IgG)

He'll just use the old saw "Atmosphere of hate" perpetrated By Trump as the cause

Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2023 11:44 AM (bs+z0)

202 These credits are nothing more than selling indulgences for modern day sinners. Years back, I did a project for a company that built and operated HUD-subsidized low income housing. By building to certain energy standards, they'd get significant tax credits that far exceeded their own tax liabilities. These excess credits were then sold to more polluting companies to offset the polluting company's tax liabilities. (It was like paying taxes with a Groupon.) The best part was that their core business of low income housing operated at a loss, but they were quite profitable, especially considering that they owed little in taxes. But please, go ahead and tell me how we are paying enough in taxes...

Posted by: A Llama Named Greg at January 30, 2023 11:44 AM (D6XWf)

203 and shrieked at my spouse (hard to remember to use gender neutral terms - suck it feds), who visited her in the hospital when she was there for some minor thing, when she found out that we were unclean.
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*pictures reaction from invasion of the body snatchers*

Posted by: Its a bad sign, it is . . . at January 30, 2023 11:44 AM (S+5Ec)

204 I just got back from running a few errands. It looks like we're going to have a good old fashioned Arky ice storm. Now, I didn't grow up in Honolulu, and I can get around pretty good in snow. Nobody can drive with a heavy glaze of ice on the road, especially those who don't realize four wheel drive does not mean four wheel stop. Very little traffic, a lot of folks must have called off or the boss closed where they work.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 30, 2023 11:44 AM (lz5hY)

205 Memphis PD: doing the jobs that white supremacists won't do.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 30, 2023 11:44 AM (Jg7EG)

206
201 200
Posted by: m at January 30, 2023 11:43 AM (lhS81)

It's tradition now......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 11:45 AM (Zz0t1)

207 Can we bring back Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben for Black History Month?

Posted by: Land o' Lakes Indian Maiden at January 30, 2023 11:46 AM (9QMtn)

208 Counterpoint: James Jamerson nailed Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" in one take while lying on his back on the floor drunk.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2023 11:35 AM (ZGrMX)

I was gonna post this...

Well done Ian!

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at January 30, 2023 11:46 AM (CCSxw)

209 I filled up the Buick yesterday w/ E0 87. It was only .23 more than the Exxon 87 E10 -- about 8% more. But E0 gives me about 10% better fuel mileage. Winning!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 30, 2023 11:19 AM (J2vNu)
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Best part about going to Oklahoma now is most fuel stations have gas (ethanol is shit, not gas) along side. You used to have to find a station that carried it. Now most do.
Posted by: Sponge

Wish 'bama was that way. Have to go out of my way to get real gas without corn syrup in it for my motorcycle. That shit clogs up the fuel sender, pump, injectors, and makes the top end 'ping'. Would like to see *types deletes* to every asshole that voted for that crap to happen.

Posted by: BifBewalski at January 30, 2023 11:46 AM (3CCua)

210 Can we bring back Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben for Black History Month?
Posted by: Land o' Lakes Indian Maiden at January 30, 2023 11:46 AM (9QMtn)

Nope. White men own the companies so, this is slavery.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 11:46 AM (Zz0t1)

211 205 I just got back from running a few errands. It looks like we're going to have a good old fashioned Arky ice storm. Now, I didn't grow up in Honolulu, and I can get around pretty good in snow. Nobody can drive with a heavy glaze of ice on the road, especially those who don't realize four wheel drive does not mean four wheel stop. Very little traffic, a lot of folks must have called off or the boss closed where they work.
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Woke up one morning outside of Detroit and the streets were completely iced. No school so we all went skating down the streets. Gets kind of hairy skating downhill.

Posted by: Puddinhead at January 30, 2023 11:47 AM (tiR3O)

212
Real inflation is double digit right now.

Prices are 50-100% higher now then when Trump left office (energy even more)

Yet somehow the official inflation rate is....7%

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2023 11:47 AM (lc5cP)

213 I'm still contemplating running it in all my lawn equipment this year. It runs so much better in the small stuff.
Posted by: Sponge

After a complete carburetor rebuild on the atv, I only run E0 in all of the gas equipment. Chainsaw, log splitter, atv, weed eaters, pole saw, pressure washer, etc.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2023 11:47 AM (ZVVGW)

214 CarDealershipGuy @GuyDealership
$250K mark-up on a Porsche

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I assume this person is waking up from a 20 year coma. Porsche charges for everything. A buddy showed me a $500 or so charge to have the key fob match the paint of his 911. This was before the dealers took full control of the car buying experience and even Hyundai and Toyota dealers can now sell unpopular base cars at 5% over msrp. Of course an in demand Porsche is going to be wildly over priced.

Posted by: You have to admit it's an awesome way to kick off Black People Month at January 30, 2023 11:47 AM (vuQMF)

215 those who don't realize four wheel drive does not mean four wheel stop.

*******

Oh, the wheels stop when you step on the brakes. The vehicle, on the other hand...

Posted by: Muldoon at January 30, 2023 11:48 AM (ykeLU)

216 208 Can we bring back Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben for Black History Month?
Posted by: Land o' Lakes Indian Maiden at January 30, 2023 11:46 AM (9QMtn)

I see the released a poster for the Month of stellar Black role models and it includes Malcom X and Angela Davis.. No Clarence Thomas....

Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2023 11:48 AM (bs+z0)

217
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Posted by: Danielle Willis at January 30, 2023 11:48 AM (M7IYf)

218 The soft bigotry of low expectations; and pepper spray, batons and tasers.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 30, 2023 11:49 AM (Jg7EG)

219 *******

Oh, the wheels stop when you step on the brakes. The vehicle, on the other hand...
Posted by: Muldoon at January 30, 2023 11:48 AM (ykeLU)

Not with anti-lock brakes. On ice it's almost like freewheeling ..

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 11:49 AM (Zz0t1)

220
especially those who don't realize four wheel drive does not mean four wheel stop.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 30, 2023 11:44 AM

Amen.

four wheel drive does not make you impervious to the laws of physics

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 30, 2023 11:49 AM (ENBF0)

221 Posted by: Danielle Willis at January 30, 2023 11:48 AM (M7IYf)

I've got a name.
And I've got a number.
I've got a whole lot on you......

Posted by: Sarah at January 30, 2023 11:50 AM (Zz0t1)

222 219 The soft bigotry of low expectations; and pepper spray, batons and tasers.
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Dude, every PD and Military has door kickers. Same with NANZI's Capital Police. Its what they do.

Posted by: Puddinhead at January 30, 2023 11:50 AM (tiR3O)

223 I see the released a poster for the Month of stellar Black role models and it includes Malcom X and Angela Davis.. No Clarence Thomas....
Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2023 11:48 AM (bs+z0)

An army friend of mine took a basic Psych course from.Davis when she was teaching. He got an A. Said she taught a very straight forward class and was very approachable. For a commie bitch.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 30, 2023 11:50 AM (anj39)

224 Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 30, 2023 11:40 AM (GYIa4)

Sorry to hear that. I did have one friend who was a mask fiend and she hasn't forgiven me, but she never asked about the shot. She just wanted me to wear a mask to protect her son who was upstairs in his bedroom and her husband who was in the basment.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2023 11:51 AM (D+F6R)

225 The soft bigotry of low expectations; and pepper spray, batons and tasers.

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What will be neat is watching black people learn the lesson from this. They don't have to show a white cop their license and registration, but...

Posted by: You have to admit it's an awesome way to kick off Black People Month at January 30, 2023 11:51 AM (vuQMF)

226 Not with anti-lock brakes. On ice it's almost like freewheeling ..
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Best to have a straight drive so you can down shift instead of braking.

Posted by: Puddinhead at January 30, 2023 11:51 AM (tiR3O)

227 Hoosier here.

NFW I am voting for Mitch Daniels over an actual fighter.

If there were no politics in politics, Mitch would be a good choice. He is a good manager. But he is squarely GOPe.

In fairness, Daniels has been president of Purdue U. So he must be in Indiana at least sometimes.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 30, 2023 11:51 AM (ruYJi)

228 Prices are 50-100% higher now then when Trump left office (energy even more)

Yet somehow the official inflation rate is....7%

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2023 11:47 AM (lc5cP)

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"The best & most accurate indicator of inflation and calculating it is ignoring necessities and counting mostly disposable income & luxury items."

-- Your Betters

Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at January 30, 2023 11:52 AM (ns4uC)

229 212 Went to the Fayetteville AR VA for an eye exam. Went in, blue skies, birdies chirping. Waited around for the dilation to quit, went outside to a skating rink. Drove down College, hit this one area that if it isn't called Dead Man's Curve it should be, and the one and only time I spun a car around a few times happened. Ice sucks for driving (and the sound of snapping branches just before the blackout).

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 30, 2023 11:52 AM (lz5hY)

230
Sorry to hear that. I did have one friend who was a mask fiend and she hasn't forgiven me, but she never asked about the shot. She just wanted me to wear a mask to protect her son who was upstairs in his bedroom and her husband who was in the basment.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2023 11:51 AM (D+F6R)

Mask = 3 microns

Covid = .3 microns

Math. Do it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 11:52 AM (Zz0t1)

231
"The best & most accurate indicator of inflation and calculating it is ignoring necessities and counting mostly disposable income & luxury items."

-- Your Betters
----------------
Yep.

Posted by: Puddinhead at January 30, 2023 11:52 AM (tiR3O)

232 228 Hoosier here.

NFW I am voting for Mitch Daniels over an actual fighter.

If there were no politics in politics, Mitch would be a good choice. He is a good manager. But he is squarely GOPe.

In fairness, Daniels has been president of Purdue U. So he must be in Indiana at least sometimes.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 30, 2023 11:51 AM (ruYJi)

=========

Oh, he'll be up against a fighter alright. He'll be up against a true-blue progressive who will get at least 45% of the vote in Indiana because nothing is more important than partisan identification anymore to the mass of voters in states where voting still matters.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being extravagant with Erich von Stroheim at January 30, 2023 11:53 AM (LvTSG)

233 On ice it's almost like freewheeling ..
Posted by: Sponge -

*******

Glenn Close in "Fatal No Traction" now streaming on Paramount+

Posted by: Muldoon at January 30, 2023 11:53 AM (ykeLU)

234 Mask = 3 microns

Covid = .3 microns

Math. Do it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 11:52 AM (Zz0t1)
***

REEEEEEE!!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at January 30, 2023 11:53 AM (anj39)

235 They will never even mention the race of the policemen. You know they won't.

Posted by: Aesop at January 30, 2023 11:53 AM (zZu0s)

236 *******

Glenn Close in "Fatal No Traction" now streaming on Paramount+
Posted by: Muldoon at January 30, 2023 11:53 AM (ykeLU)

I thought that was "Slickwood."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 11:53 AM (Zz0t1)

237 Real inflation is double digit right now.

Prices are 50-100% higher now then when Trump left office (energy even more)

Yet somehow the official inflation rate is....7%

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2023 11:47 AM

Rumor is the federal government has been contemplating removing food and fuel from the formula they use to calculate inflation. If you keep redefining what inflation is, you control the narrative.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 30, 2023 11:53 AM (uNylN)

238 Oh...sorry. Meryl Streep....Glenn Close.....Same difference.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 11:54 AM (Zz0t1)

239 So Biden is going to do a big song and dance in the SOTU about racism and poor policing when all the cops were Black Uh huh.

Can't wait to see how Biden tries to blame this on "the man" and systemic racism since the cops are black. The blithering idiot is "the man" in charge of our racist system.
Posted by: Ripley at January 30, 2023 11:42 AM

Lefties are already shrieking that the existence of police in general is a creation of white supremacy, so it shouldn't be too hard for his speech writer to make the leap.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 30, 2023 11:54 AM (Vl0Ta)

240
After a complete carburetor rebuild on the atv, I only run E0 in all of the gas equipment. Chainsaw, log splitter, atv, weed eaters, pole saw, pressure washer, etc.
Posted by: rickb223

Had to rebuild the carb on my mower, wood chipper, and leaf blower. Chainsaw is in the to be engaged queue.

Posted by: BifBewalski at January 30, 2023 11:54 AM (3CCua)

241 Canadian researchers analyzed coffee’s “contribution to climate change” in a piece published in early January and suggested people moderate their consumption of the popular drink as a part of the solution.

Have a cup of STFU, Canadian. I ain't giving up my coffee and am happy to convert you to compost if you push.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 30, 2023 11:55 AM (4olE8)

242 The whole climate change scare scam shows how stupid and gullible people are.

From EV's to recycling to carbon credits to the Mickey D's Styrofoam to Iron Eyes Cody bawling on that stupid TV ad years ago.

All dumbasses and all a fraud.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 30, 2023 11:55 AM (yEMHD)

243
Rumor is the federal government has been contemplating removing food and fuel from the formula they use to calculate inflation. If you keep redefining what inflation is, you control the narrative.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 30, 2023 11:53 AM (uNylN)

"Those that control the history books......"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 11:55 AM (Zz0t1)

244 four wheel drive does not make you impervious to the laws of physics
Posted by: AltonJackson at January 30, 2023 11:49 AM (ENBF0)

No, but being ESG compliant does.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 30, 2023 11:55 AM (xhaym)

245 The bit about coffee... in my reading of those articles it seems what they are arguing is the the supply chain that brings Columbian (just one example) coffee to your grocer or supplier is responsible for "climate change." From growing, to farming, to processing, to packaging, to shipping, to storage, to delivery, etc. So by extension ANY suppy chain that brings a foodstuff to your door from another country is responsible just the same for "climate change." That means wheat, corn, rice, quinoa, New Zealand lamb, etc.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at January 30, 2023 11:55 AM (ssESX)

246 242 Canadian researchers analyzed coffee’s “contribution to climate change” in a piece published in early January and suggested people moderate their consumption of the popular drink as a part of the solution.

Have a cup of STFU, Canadian. I ain't giving up my coffee and am happy to convert you to compost if you push.
Posted by: NR Pax at January 30, 2023 11:55 AM (4olE

========

How much climate change is caused by all the energy required to trans one underaged kid without their parents' permission?

I know they save a bit on server costs because there are fewer email communications, but it's gotta get outweighed by all the hospital costs.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being extravagant with Erich von Stroheim at January 30, 2023 11:56 AM (LvTSG)

247 207 201 200
Posted by: m at January 30, 2023 11:43 AM (lhS81)

It's tradition now......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 11:45 AM (Zz0t1)

I'm just doing a little fiddling on the roof.

Posted by: m at January 30, 2023 11:56 AM (lhS81)

248 On ice it's almost like freewheeling ..
Posted by: Sponge -

*******

Glenn Close in "Fatal No Traction" now streaming on Paramount+
Posted by: Muldoon at January 30, 2023 11:53 AM (ykeLU)
***

Sound track features Paul Simon and Slip Slidin' Away.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 30, 2023 11:56 AM (anj39)

249 Old communists like Angela Davis and Bernie Sanders mellow once they reach tenure.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 30, 2023 11:56 AM (Jg7EG)

250 >>> 68
She even changed her cover photo to trust the "science"

How many more need to die?
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 30, 2023 11:10 AM (Vwz3I)

If you are a fauci cultist? All. Reap it, bitches.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 11:17 AM (Zz0t1)

I wonder if one of the reasons they're trying so hard to get the fakevaxx into *everyone* (beyond the psycho power-tripping) is that they realized they may wipe out most of the 'compliant' people they think they should keep around... plus themselves if enough of the population gets a clue.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 30, 2023 11:56 AM (llON8)

251 CarDealershipGuy @GuyDealership
$250K mark-up on a Porsche

I believe that if people with too much money want to piss it away foolishly, it's almost a moral obligation to take advantage of them. Unfortunately for me, I haven't figured out how to do it myself.

Posted by: Oddbob at January 30, 2023 11:57 AM (nfrXX)

252 A Tesla caught fire, it took 6,000 gallons of water to extinguish the blaze.

Posted by: Archer at January 30, 2023 11:57 AM (gmo/4)

253 Mask = 3 microns

Covid = .3 microns

Math. Do it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 11:52 AM (Zz0t1)
-

/rubs dust speck off screen

/rubs harder

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 30, 2023 11:57 AM (vSzkg)

254 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 11:52 AM (Zz0t1)

Well, she's not talking to me so I can't tell her that.

I have discovered since that other people had friends and family members who cut off communication with them because they either didn't want to wear a paper mask all the time or didn't get the shot.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2023 11:57 AM (D+F6R)

255 Rumor is the federal government has been contemplating removing food and fuel from the formula they use to calculate inflation. If you keep redefining what inflation is, you control the narrative.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 30, 2023 11:53 AM (uNylN)

They have been replacing high ticket foods like steak from the CPI for years, and replacing them with startches for years to hide inflation, on the theory that fewer people are buying expensive things.
Apparently we are running out of inexpensive substitutes

Posted by: Kindltot at January 30, 2023 11:57 AM (xhaym)

256
I wonder if one of the reasons they're trying so hard to get the fakevaxx into *everyone* (beyond the psycho power-tripping) is that they realized they may wipe out most of the 'compliant' people they think they should keep around... plus themselves if enough of the population gets a clue.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 30, 2023 11:56 AM (llON

If only the armed red masses remain, they're screwed and they know it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 11:57 AM (Zz0t1)

257 17 There's an actual program you can sign up to for "free" money if you're not going to log your land. Just putting that out there.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 30, 2023 11:05 AM (eYoxG

A family member is buying some land that is mostly wooded. I'll have to point this out to them.

Posted by: Sarai Delenn at January 30, 2023 11:57 AM (qyH+l)

258 Canadian researchers analyzed coffee’s “contribution to climate change” in a piece published in early January and suggested people moderate their consumption of the popular drink as a part of the solution.

Have a cup of STFU, Canadian. I ain't giving up my coffee and am happy to convert you to compost if you push.
Posted by: NR Pax at January 30, 2023 11:55 AM

Dear Canadians....they're coming for your Tim Hortons!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 30, 2023 11:57 AM (Vl0Ta)

259 My son went to Purdue while Mitch was president of the university. There was no woke crap, the tuition was steady, and they delivered what was expected. He was probably the best college president that I had run across. That he has a home in Naples as well as Indiana, I don't know. I guess I get that after years of service to become a snow bird.

Is he a RINO, have other issues? Maybe, but his years running Purdue made me feel that he was at least honest and focused on the value that his institution was to provide.

Posted by: Chicago Vota at January 30, 2023 11:58 AM (mbH6j)

260 257 If only the armed red masses remain, they're screwed and they know it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 11:57 AM (Zz0t1)

=========

"America is so dumb. It believes anything we say."
-Democrats and the media

"Um...it's not all of America that believes you."
-Red America

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being extravagant with Erich von Stroheim at January 30, 2023 11:58 AM (LvTSG)

261 Glenn Close in "Fatal No Traction" now streaming on Paramount+
Posted by: Muldoon at January 30, 2023 11:53 AM (ykeLU)
***

Sound track features Paul Simon and Slip Slidin' Away.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 30, 2023 11:56 AM (anj39)

Free Falling - Tom Petty

Posted by: Archer at January 30, 2023 11:58 AM (gmo/4)

262 Reading various comments by people about money. An amazing number of people say they lost money investing some money in FTX. Which is probably the writer understating their real loss. I have a friend who admits to loosing money, but he says it wasn't much, so he says.

Posted by: Colin at January 30, 2023 11:58 AM (U+mbV)

263
I have discovered since that other people had friends and family members who cut off communication with them because they either didn't want to wear a paper mask all the time or didn't get the shot.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2023 11:57 AM (D+F6R)

The government and media has created a mental imbalance in so many people, this world will never be the same.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 30, 2023 11:59 AM (Zz0t1)

264 They have been replacing high ticket foods like steak from the CPI for years, and replacing them with startches for years to hide inflation, on the theory that fewer people are buying expensive things.
Apparently we are running out of inexpensive substitutes
Posted by: Kindltot at January 30, 2023 11:57 AM (xhaym)

Ahem. Crickets.

Posted by: Sarai Delenn at January 30, 2023 11:59 AM (qyH+l)

265 Witness that fed retrieval of teh bitcoins paid as ransom for the Colonial Pipeline blackmail a few years ago. Essentially, the feds went back through the blockchain and reversed all the transactions so that the bitcoins in the pirates hands were seized.

Now, knowing the government, they could simply be lying about reversing the chain. But then again, no one really knows much about how Bitcoin was invented and it is very possible that intel agencies were involved in its invention. Another rumor is that Bitcoin was a designed to be a distributed way to find prime numbers well beyond those known for cryptographic reasons. So, either way, both government money today or crypto currencies are both black boxes that can be manipulated by bad actors.
Posted by: whig

Gold in the hand isn't reversible. Can be melted down and re-struck as bullion from a different company. 24k is 24k. As long as it is 24k, no one cares.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2023 11:59 AM (ZVVGW)

266 Old communists like Angela Davis and Bernie Sanders mellow once they reach tenure.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 30, 2023 11:56 AM

And a certain level of income...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 30, 2023 11:59 AM (Vl0Ta)

267 Bobby Hull obituary linked in my sock.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 30, 2023 12:00 PM (Vwz3I)

268 Mask = 3 microns

Covid = .3 microns
=
Edges of mask where most of the air enters due to fluid dynamics 1 sq inch.

Posted by: Ha ha its funny because 3 microns is only if everything is ideal which it never is at January 30, 2023 12:00 PM (XlSTM)

269 Glenn Close in "Fatal No Traction"
+++++++++
Sound track features Paul Simon and Slip Slidin' Away.
Posted by: Diogenes

*******

They had a special screening recently at Skidmore College...

Posted by: Muldoon at January 30, 2023 12:00 PM (ykeLU)

270 @253 and I guess the batteries burn so hot even foam doesn't work? You'd think the US Navy would have valuable, centuries old, experience putting out these super hot fires, but allnI keep hearing from the experts is that you can either empty a swimming pool on it or sit there and watch it burn out, no other options.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at January 30, 2023 12:00 PM (ssESX)

271 Canadian researchers analyzed coffee’s “contribution to climate change”

Dear Canada, you are hereby invited to pleasure the barbed cock of Satan.. GFY

Posted by: Mr. Keurig at January 30, 2023 12:00 PM (D25PY)

272 You people who are talking about trees you won't cut down are going about it all wrong.

I have several million blades of grass that identify as trees and only your carbon offset dollars can save the planet as you pay me to keep them in pristine condition.

Posted by: AK at work at January 30, 2023 12:00 PM (o+IHV)

273 There must have been a "baby bust" from the coof.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 30, 2023 12:01 PM (ybIRR)

274 >>> 115
What's the putative rationale for charging the doctor?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 30, 2023 11:26 AM (oINRc)

Guessing here:
1) parading
2) trespassing
3) interfering with an investigation
4) OMG INSURRECTION REEEEEEE!!!!!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 30, 2023 12:01 PM (llON8)

275 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being extravagant with Erich von Stroheim at January 30, 2023 11:56 AM (LvTSG)

How much climate 'change' is caused by our moving energy from one place, to another?

Using giant wind farms, or solar energy, takes energy from the climate at that location, often in the country... changes it to electricity, where it is used in the cities. Most often, that electricity use generates large amounts of waste heat... artificially raising temperatures there. At the very least, large transfers of energy will change wind patterns by creating 'hot spots' in cities... and as far as I know, NO ONE is looking at these consequences.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 30, 2023 12:01 PM (oHd/0)

276 Nood.

Posted by: Aesop at January 30, 2023 12:01 PM (zZu0s)

277 Nood. Apparently they're just going to declare that Biden is the National Archives.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 30, 2023 12:02 PM (GYIa4)

278 271 @253 and I guess the batteries burn so hot even foam doesn't work? You'd think the US Navy would have valuable, centuries old, experience putting out these super hot fires, but allnI keep hearing from the experts is that you can either empty a swimming pool on it or sit there and watch it burn out, no other options.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO

Purple K

Posted by: US Navy Training Center at January 30, 2023 12:02 PM (D25PY)

279 Metro Fire of Sacramento @metrofirepio · Jan 28 Replying to @metrofirepio
The vehicle battery compartment spontaneously caught fire while it was traveling freeway speeds on EB Hwy 50. The fire was extinguished with approx 6,000 gallons of water, as the battery cells continued to combust. Thankfully no injuries were reported.

Metro Fire of Sacramento @metrofirepio
Crews arrived to a Tesla Model S engulfed in flames, nothing unusual prior. 2 Fire Engines, a water tender, and a ladder truck were requested to assist. Crews used jacks to access the underside to extinguish and cool the battery. Thousands of gallons were used in extinguishment.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 30, 2023 09:21 AM

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 30, 2023 12:02 PM (Vwz3I)

280 271 @253 and I guess the batteries burn so hot even foam doesn't work? You'd think the US Navy would have valuable, centuries old, experience putting out these super hot fires, but allnI keep hearing from the experts is that you can either empty a swimming pool on it or sit there and watch it burn out, no other options.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at January 30, 2023 12:00 PM (ssESX)

Or shove it over the side. That's why the Navy prohibits lithium batteries onboard ships and aircraft.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 30, 2023 12:02 PM (uNylN)

281 Real inflation is double digit right now.

Prices are 50-100% higher now then when Trump left office (energy even more)

Yet somehow the official inflation rate is....7%

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2023 11:47 AM

My parents had a lifetime to complain about rising cost of living. Prices have skyrocketed since GrandpappyTouchyFingers was installed.

At home, we now refer to prices as : pre-covid, covid, & Biden. And when you see a lady at the checkout complaining about astronomical prices, that's me. If I can get one cashier to stop voting demon-rat, I've done something.

Posted by: RondinellaMamma Donald J. Trump is our duly elected president at January 30, 2023 12:03 PM (l0Cy4)

282 265
...
Apparently we are running out of inexpensive substitutes
Posted by: Kindltot at January 30, 2023 11:57 AM (xhaym)

Ahem. Crickets.
Posted by: Sarai Delenn at January 30, 2023 11:59 AM (qyH+l)
----

In the future I will look for packages with the "Cricket-Free" seal.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at January 30, 2023 12:03 PM (ssESX)

283 Bobby Hull obituary linked in my sock.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 30, 2023 12:00 PM (Vwz3I)

Yep, the legends of hockey from my youth are dying. Sad.

Posted by: Archer at January 30, 2023 12:03 PM (gmo/4)

284 Mask = 3 microns

Covid = .3 microns

Math. Do it.
Posted by: Sponge

If you can smell a fart with a mask on, congratulations! You just got covid.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2023 12:03 PM (ZVVGW)

285 "Coal, too."

Coal is, after all, made of plants. What could be greener than that?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 30, 2023 12:03 PM (7Vk/w)

286 273 You people who are talking about trees you won't cut down are going about it all wrong.

I have several million blades of grass that identify as trees and only your carbon offset dollars can save the planet as you pay me to keep them in pristine condition.

Posted by: AK at work at January 30, 2023 12:00 PM (o+IHV)

I had to cut down 4 30 year old trees, so my solar panels would not be in the shade.

/scratches head...

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 30, 2023 12:03 PM (oHd/0)

287 Or shove it over the side. That's why the Navy prohibits lithium batteries onboard ships and aircraft.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 30, 2023 12:02 PM (uNylN)

Purple K!

Posted by: Archer at January 30, 2023 12:04 PM (gmo/4)

288 Yep, the legends of hockey from my youth are dying. Sad.

Posted by: Archer

Considering "my youth" was 45 to 50 years ago, yeah.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2023 12:04 PM (ZVVGW)

289 Well, she's not talking to me so I can't tell her that.

I have discovered since that other people had friends and family members who cut off communication with them because they either didn't want to wear a paper mask all the time or didn't get the shot.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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The ironic thing is that if you trust 'Science', having the vaxx actually makes you more likely to be a super spreader and increases your vulnerability to new strains. Even Pfizer admits that the vaxx has no effect on transmissibility of the virus by the vaxxed.

Ditto on the effect of masks--unless you go up to a respirator, a typical paper/cloth mask does nothing on prevention of getting a viral infection. There may be a slight positive effect for N95 and higher masks if properly fitted (so tight that it leaves creases in the skin after removal).

On paper masks and their effectiveness, this was one of the few times that Fauci told the truth before he started lying again.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2023 12:05 PM (YL0ac)

290 @186

>>Battery replacement costs can be about $20,000 depending on the type of vehicle. One lady had an estimate for $32,000 IIRC.

Imagine the cost of a max range, F150 Lightening's battery pack, it will more than likely exceed the value of a base F150 ICE pickup.

It's all bullsh*t.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 30, 2023 12:05 PM (vgYvF)

291 Apparently we are running out of inexpensive substitutes
--------------------
Ve haz bugz.

Posted by: Klaus Schwabb at January 30, 2023 12:05 PM (tiR3O)

292
Glenn Close in "Fatal No Traction" now streaming on Paramount+
Posted by: Muldoon

Love it!

Posted by: AK at work at January 30, 2023 12:05 PM (o+IHV)

293 260 My son went to Purdue while Mitch was president of the university. There was no woke crap, the tuition was steady, and they delivered what was expected. He was probably the best college president that I had run across. That he has a home in Naples as well as Indiana, I don't know. I guess I get that after years of service to become a snow bird.

Is he a RINO, have other issues? Maybe, but his years running Purdue made me feel that he was at least honest and focused on the value that his institution was to provide.
Posted by: Chicago Vota
---------
Don't expect much if anything from Daniels, managers do a shitty job in legislative type jobs. Essentially, what they learn as a governor has little to no measure whether they will be an effective legislator because the jobs are fundamentally different because as a junior legislator, you are essentially at the mercy of your party leadership.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2023 12:08 PM (YL0ac)

294 Nood. Lamont.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 30, 2023 12:08 PM (pBUtp)

295 Talking about sports heroes from my youth passing away, think about guns. Meme on Facebook:

"What I think of when I think of a 100 yr old gun design".

Holds up flintlock or percussion rifle.

"An actual 100 yr old gun design".

Holds up 1911.

Yeah. We old.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2023 12:09 PM (ZVVGW)

296 Or shove it over the side. That's why the Navy prohibits lithium batteries onboard ships and aircraft.
-----------------
They store lithium batteries outside in smallish 'paint lockers.' Marines use a lot of lithium batteries in combat. The Navy plan is to push them overboard if the catch fire.

Posted by: Klaus Schwabb at January 30, 2023 12:09 PM (tiR3O)

297 281 271 @253 and I guess the batteries burn so hot even foam doesn't work? You'd think the US Navy would have valuable, centuries old, experience putting out these super hot fires, but allnI keep hearing from the experts is that you can either empty a swimming pool on it or sit there and watch it burn out, no other options.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO
--------
I think lithium batteries have their own firestarter (dendrites form over time shorting the battery out) and oxygen source in their chemistry. Essentially, all you can do is cool down the battery via massive amounts of water vaporization to below combustion temps but the continuing ability of a lithium battery to short out via water or dendrites makes it reignite over and over again.

The other option is to let it burn itself out.

Posted by: whig at January 30, 2023 12:13 PM (YL0ac)

298 That First Law of Bass is incredibly snot-nosed.
You little bastards just aren't old enough to remember how many shitty upright players there used to be. Two notes per chord, back and forth.

Jazz changed forever when they lost the bass horns.
I know it must be important for you to act all grownup and rebel re: the guitar bass, but you're missing a lick, and the wind to play a tuba or bass clarinet.

Unless you have a washtub with a broomstick in the garage, or know why they were called "jug bands," you're not qualified to judge on this.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 30, 2023 12:16 PM (jYCXf)

299 259 Dear Canadians....they're coming for your Tim Hortons!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 30, 2023 11:57 AM (Vl0Ta)

That would stop things cold. I like it!

Posted by: NR Pax at January 30, 2023 12:21 PM (4olE8)

300 Naples, Florida is not in Indiana. It doesn’t even matter that Daniels is a Y2K-era “fiscal conservative” who doesn’t want to fight the culture war. His out of state residence is fully disqualifying for ordinary Indianans needing representation in Congress.

Missouri elected a dead Democrat to the Senate once. I thought at the time that is really stretching the definition of 'resides in the state' to include his grave.

Of course the Republicans rolled over for this.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 30, 2023 12:51 PM (yQpMk)

301 About the inflation change, I don't think it's the price baseline that is the big change. Rather, with higher prices people adjust what they buy. If beef prices rise, people will switch to chicken, and this higher amount of chicken goes into the basket of goods whose prices they are comparing.
People are buying less gas with Biden, so now they will switch to a basket that has less gasoline weighting.

Posted by: MikeN at January 30, 2023 01:35 PM (HVIzT)

302 54 That's just what we need. Cranky earthworms up all night...

Posted by: richard mcenroe at January 30, 2023 01:53 PM (8fxF+)

303 296 Don't think the Marines will like being pushed overboard.

Posted by: richard mcenroe at January 30, 2023 01:56 PM (8fxF+)

304 Carbon offsets are an idea as old as papal indulgences. Also mafiosi protection money.

Posted by: Beverly at January 30, 2023 02:20 PM (ICk/M)

305 Can Democratic politicians claim Carbon Credits for all the dead people who voted for them? You have to admit, a dead voter's carbon footprint is pretty small.

Posted by: JB1000 at January 30, 2023 02:25 PM (bXn0x)

306 I’ll even send you a picture of the trees that aren’t being deforested upon receipt of your carbon offset payment.
Even better, promise that "his trees" will write to him to tell him how much good they're doing.
(A rip-off of the Compassion International thing where "your kid" would write you letters telling you how you were helping.)

Posted by: GWB at January 30, 2023 04:56 PM (B7zYP)

307 Much prefer Banks to Daniels, although Daniels has good street cred. Daniels doesn't have to live in Indiana right now, just at time of election. We've already done this in NY with Bobby Kennedy and Hillary Clinton.

But Buck, the proper term is "Hoosier". Gawd, don't EVER use "Indianans".

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